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FoiledAgain · May 4, 2016

Detecting conditions have been miserable here for months, but I finally broke my gold slump with a little 10K ring. It was so black that I thought it was silver until I got it home and looked at it with a hand lens. Cleaned up nicely. One of the quarters was a thick black cookie with a '57 Washington entombed inside. The other interesting find was a .30 caliber bullet, 1.27 inches long. I have no idea what rifle this would be for -- never seen a bullet this long. A couple of obligatory Felixes -- hate these things... Total of 19 targets (iron ignored) in a 2 1/2 hour hunt. This is not a target-rich area!
Happy hunting everyone!

Slimpickuns · May 4, 2016

Wow those have been in the water for a while eh? Congrats on the 10k, good clean up job too!

Ice Scratcher · May 5, 2016

Welcome back man!!

Congrats on the classic gold and silver combo!!!

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Shavnore · May 5, 2016

Congrats on the gold

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Canerat · May 5, 2016

Nicely done.

joee5 · May 5, 2016

Grats on the gold and silver

dewcon · May 5, 2016

Its not easy out there thats for sure. Ive also started seeing more summer huntings coming out of the woodwork. Some new to water hunting that have been sand diggers a log time as well as some ole timers whose getting back into it....... they will sure put the pressure on this year.

Congrats on that gold.

Compass · May 5, 2016

Congrats on the silver and gold! Good treasure to trash ratio there. Get it while you can! :yes:

CTCurt · May 5, 2016

Nice looking hunt. Congrats..... :yes:

Kapi · May 5, 2016

I'd need prozac with a slump that long. Addictions are bad and I have it good! Congrats on the gold and old coin!

ChevellRCR · May 5, 2016

Looks like a great hunt to me. Great job!

Big Treble · May 5, 2016

Not a beach Hunter, but wow, are you hunting close ro 3 mile island? I had no idea water would destroy the silver that bad.

FelixtheCat · May 5, 2016

I have picked up gold at a beach that I frequent that comes out tarnished and I think is junk until I figured out the conditions there do that to it. Congrats!!! I believe that you need an attitude adjustment on the Felixes though! :lol:

Ricki7 · May 5, 2016

Congrats , silver and gold good hunt
HH

rreahard · May 5, 2016

Great finds! Congrats!!

scott.f · May 5, 2016

Nice gold, congrats on breaking the slump

FoiledAgain · May 5, 2016

Slimpickuns said:
Wow those have been in the water for a while eh? Congrats on the 10k, good clean up job too!

Thanks Slim. The silver Q was so thick it looked like a mini oreo. But I've had clad come out of the anoxic mud with a good coating after less than a decade, so you never can tell.

Ice Scratcher said:
Welcome back man!!
Congrats on the classic gold and silver combo!!!
<°)))>{

Thanks Ice. Hope you're picking up some of that yellow!

Shavnore said:
Congrats on the gold
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Thanks Shavnore.

Canerat said:
Nicely done.

Thanks Canerat. It's been so bleak that I'd gladly have settled for one of those junk rings you've been finding and considered it a real treasure.

joee5 said:
Grats on the gold and silver

Thanks j.

dewcon said:
Its not easy out there thats for sure. Ive also started seeing more summer huntings coming out of the woodwork. Some new to water hunting that have been sand diggers a log time as well as some ole timers whose getting back into it....... they will sure put the pressure on this year.
Congrats on that gold.

Thanks Dew. The trick will be to get in there between the seeders and the pickers. :lol:

Compass said:
Congrats on the silver and gold! Good treasure to trash ratio there. Get it while you can!

Thanks Compass. Forgot to mention, the ring was a whopping 1.53 grams! Nonetheless, infinitely better than the ratio of 0 over the last few months.

CTCurt said:
Nice looking hunt. Congrats.....

Thanks Curt.

Kapidr said:
I'd need prozac with a slump that long. Addictions are bad and I have it good! Congrats on the gold and old coin!

Thanks Barb. Yeah, I know the feeling. But it feels so good when even the tiniest bit of yellow ends the grief. In the meantime, no chemical stimulants of any kind, except a good margarita...

ChevellRCR said:
Looks like a great hunt to me. Great job!

Thanks Chev.

Big Treble said:
Not a beach Hunter, but wow, are you hunting close ro 3 mile island? I had no idea water would destroy the silver that bad.

Thanks Big T. Once the metal gets down into the anoxic layer all kinds of nasty things happen in a short time. If I'd been at 3-M Island these things would probably have been glowing in the dark. :shock:

FelixtheCat said:
I have picked up gold at a beach that I frequent that comes out tarnished and I think is junk until I figured out the conditions there do that to it. Congrats!!! I believe that you need an attitude adjustment on the Felixes though!

Thanks Felix. I'll save those ratty bits of zinc and send them to my good buddy down in Florida. :laughing:

Ricki7 said:
Congrats , silver and gold good hunt
HH

Thanks Ricki.

rreahard said:
Great finds! Congrats!!

Thanks rreahard. I hope they're a harbinger of good things to come!

007tallguy · May 5, 2016

congrats on the gold and silver! and wow, one pulltab and one gold ring..... i like that ratio!

zeemang · May 5, 2016

Nice catch!

jga5367 · May 5, 2016

Congratulations on the 10K ring nice, also cool that you discovered a silver quarter was hiding beneath the crust

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